Bambi: The Reckoning- 'Prepare for Bambi on rabies' in new horror movie

Disney’s Bambi is one of the most adorable characters from yesteryears, especially for the millennials. However, the image of innocent young Bambi is all set to get ruined after Rhys Frake-Waterfield announced that he’d be making Bambi: The Reckoning, a horror, bloodthirsty rendition of the baby dear.

Director Scott Jeffrey said: “The film will be an incredibly dark retelling of the 1928 story we all know and love. Finding inspiration from the design used in Netflix’s The Ritual, Bambi will be a vicious killing machine that lurks in the wilderness. Prepare for Bambi on rabies!”

Rhys is also the director of the upcoming movie Winnie the Pooh: Blood and Honey, which has been in the midst of a controversy ever since it was announced. The terrifying reimagining of Winnie the Pooh is all set to hit theatres on February 15, 2023. The movie will show Winnie and Piglet as brutal serial killers after Christopher Robin abandons them.


The internet has gone berserk after Rhys made the announcement about Bambi’s new rendition. Some people lashed out at Rhys, stating that he had already ruined Pooh and was now set to ruin another innocent Disney character. A few netizens also suggested the filmmaker should make an original horror story instead of ruining old children’s characters.

Bambi was made a publicly available character in 2016, allowing filmmakers to reimagine the young deer however they liked. Talking about the new take on the adorable children’s character, producer Scott Jeffrey said that Bambi: The Reckoning would be an extremely dark version of the popular story.

He added that the movie would be inspired by the Netflix film The Ritual (2017), and Bambi would be portrayed as a killing machine.
Rhys seems to be on a spree of turning adorable children’s characters into vicious monsters. Apart from Pooh and Bambi, the filmmaker has also announced a rendition of Peter Pan in another terrifying movie, Peter Pan: Neverland Nightmare. Filming and release details of Bambi or Peter Pan movies haven’t been revealed yet.

FAQs
• What’s the release date of Winnie the Pooh: Blood and Honey?
February 15, 2023.

• Which other character will Rhys modify after Pooh and Bambi?
Peter Pan.